If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I’d have it tinned. With vinegar.
HAROLD WILSONGiven a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whatever terms are offered us? No.
More Harold Wilson Quotes
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The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.
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One man’s wage increase is another man’s price increase.
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[Criticizing as “appalingly complacent” a Conservative Government report that by the ’60s, Britain would be producing all the scientists needed] Of course we shall.
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At home and abroad I have repeatedly been asked what are the main essentials of a successful prime minister.
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All these financiers, all the little gnomes of Zürich and the other financial centres, about whom we keep on hearing.
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Over and above communication and vigilance, there are two factors I have always mentioned. They are sleep, and a sense of history.
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This party is a bit like an old stagecoach. If you drive along at a rapid rate everyone aboard is either so exhilarated or so seasick that you don’t have a lot of difficulty.
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We are redefining and we are restating our Socialism in terms of the scientific revolution …
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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If you rattle along at great speed everybody inside is too exhilarated or too seasick to cause any trouble. But if you stop everybody gets out and argues about where to go next.
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From now on, the pound abroad is worth 14 per cent or so less in terms of other currencies. That doesn’t mean, of course, that the Pound here in Britain, in your pocket or purse or in your bank, has been devalued.
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
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A week is a long time in politics.
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The ambition of the present Labour government is that every worker in the country will have a greater than average income.
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